Jennifer Burke Reifman Publishes Article in Assessing Writing

WRaCS DE student Jennifer Burke Reifman's article "Reading the Reader Through Raciolinguistic Ideologies: An Investigation of the Evidence Students Present in Self-Placement" appears in the January 2024 volume of Assessing Writing. The article examines a student-centered placement process, applying a raciolinguistic lens to understand how students’ perceptions of language appropriateness mediate their self-assessments. Using the raciolinguistic framework to understand types of evidence, this article details how students create and write to a faculty reader during writing produced for placement, paying special attention to the ways in which white supremacist language ideologies are enacted for the benefit of the imagined listening subject/reader.